On Jan 15, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 2009-01-15 20:35, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> You need a boot sector for the BIOS to jump into, but >> it doesn't have to be a MBR with slices. That's why >> a DD has something that looks an awful lot like a MBR >> in the first sector. It could very well be boot sector >> of an FAT* file system. > > I can confirm, that wiping out the partition table (but not the boot > code), using "bsdlabel -B /dev/ad0s1", makes "s1" disappear. > Subsequent > boots can then be done from /dev/ad0a, and this works both for "old" > kernels, e.g. from before r186240 and after. Thanks *very* much for testing! It's important that we get the details right, so that we can consider adding code to help in the migration and fix whatever is broken. Much appreciated, -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt_at_mac.comReceived on Thu Jan 15 2009 - 18:55:59 UTC
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